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🚲💨 Hop on the early bird rate 🚨🗓️ Early bird registration for the Indiana Walk & Bike Summit ends Sunday, March 15. After that, rates increase by $50. Join planners, public health professionals, engineers, advocates, and community leaders from across Indiana for two days of learning, connection, and inspiration focused on creating safer, more walkable and bikeable communities. Register now (link in bio!)

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Families aren’t fleeing cities; they are being designed out of them.

Cities are losing young families not because families don’t want urban life, but because urban life rarely offers the types of housing families need. We at Proformus think the answer lay with rethinking the single-family lot.

Families today look different from the nuclear-family image baked into 1950s zoning. Yet we keep planning and regulating as if “family” still means a breadwinner, a stay-at-home parent, two children, and a car for every adult.

North Carolina is currently a leader on land use reform, but the conversation often gets stuck on the “what” rather than the “how.” We partnered with Carolina Forward to answer a simple question: What does upzoning actually look like for our neighborhoods?

The answer isn’t just massive apartment blocks. It’s incremental. It’s sensitive. It’s granular. And it can fit on single-family lots.

In our latest study focusing on Charlotte, Raleigh, and the Research Triangle, we visualized missing-middle typologies from cottage courts to 6-plexes, all hoping to maximize traditional single-family lots that can fit more into the existing architectural heritage of these communities. While these were simple “test fits”, they go to show just how much conventional single-family lots can actually hold.

These ideations are proof that we don’t have to choose between housing abundance and neighborhood character. We can (and must) have both.

Check out the full visual study at our site in bio

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If our streets are the biggest public space we all share, they should feel a whole lot more like a community’s living room and a whole lot less like a racetrack. 💛🚲 Getting ready for today’s Safe Streets Protest and daydreaming about the Indy we could be… a city that embraces universal daylighting (aka: no parking right up to crosswalks so drivers can actually see humans). It’s simple. It’s cheap. It saves lives. Let’s go.

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day 10/13: The terminator: this one works to create a four way intersection with all through traffic allowed on College and Mass but eliminating all turns beside northbound College traffic onto Mass or St Clair. St Clair eastbound is terminated at College creating a cul-de-sac pickup dropoff zone. The east leg of St Clair becomes is fed off Mass, and all westbound traffic is right turn only

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Day 9/13: F*** it, no turns except from northbound College. Curb bulb outs reduce crossing width for every pedestrian crossing. Short sight distances and narrow roadways mean slower speeds. Keep the stoplights, don’t care

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Day 8/11 (but actually 8/13 since I’ve miscounted the days to the protest on Sunday):

These are increasingly getting more chaotic but its fine.

I call this one the Isthmus. the point is that College southbound becomes an all way stop with Mass and St Clair. Eastbound St. Clair terminates into College, allowing turn offs into Mass Ave and Mass Ave to flow through to College. Northbound College continues along St Clair to feed traffic. The isthmus between the two pairs becomes a cute lil connection between the Cultural Trail and Chatham Arch.

And College gets more parking for Bottleworks. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy

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Episode 003 of From the Kitchen Table is live!

This week, Jake Budler joins me in the kitchen to talk about Indy’s pedestrian/cyclist safety crisis. Jake walks me through the timeline of how this came to his attention, starting with a death at the corner of Mass Ave and College in 2024.

Tap in to learn more about what’s going on in our city, including who is trying to bring solutions now instead of never. And check out the Safe Streets Protest happening this Sunday.

Also: have you had a near-death experience in your area? Live in a city that does a good job of taking care of their pedestrians and cyclists? Let us know 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

Our full convo is available exclusively on Substack. Link in bio.

#FromTheKitchenTable #Podcast #PedestrainCrisis #PedestrianSafety #SafeStreetsIndy

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Day 6/11 of posting intersection ideas for Mass/College until our protest on Nov 23 to highlight the need for safer streets in Indianapolis. This one is a little zany, and a bit less realistic than other concepts I’ve come up with. The idea is to essentially eliminate nearly all traffic lights (signalized intersections are one of the highest-risk locations for serious crashes) – that is, all traffic lights except College to maintain north-south traffic on the east side of downtown

The rest of the intersections are converted into right turn only traffic flows – with stop signs before each potential pedestrian crossing. This creates a series of four “Loopways” that migrate traffic in and around Mass Ave – although this would certainly come at the consternation of IndyGo routes (which could be temporarily rerouted) it could be a boon for rideshare drivers who maintain better flow during peak periods. College would remain a light, but with a flashing red acting as a floating stop sign. It’s a Sunday night, hope everyone is enjoying their football xx

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Day 5/11: This one is a simple one for a late Saturday night. Quick curb bulb outs on College turn four lanes of thru traffic into two, with two additional parking lanes created for overflow. Thru traffic on St Clair is eliminated in lieu of turn only paths, with eastbound traffic turning either north or south on Mass Ave. Westbound traffic on St Clair would only be able to turn left south on Mass Ave. Turns would be eliminated on College, with extended sight triangles to prevent accidents.

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Day 4/11 : This one is partially inspired by Parque México and Parque España in the Condesa neighborhood of Mexico City as well as Logan Square in Chicago. The idea is to quickly create a Radial–Diagonal Circulation Pattern that allows full movement of circulation north and south along Mass Ave but make the heavy speeding traffic of St Clair and College slow the f down

The turn radii allows for heavy trucks to access the Mayflower lot on St Clair as well as school and IndyGo buses. The “Parque Mass” could host pop up planters with trees to intimate a real park – this will slow down traffic even further. Perhaps even the daring tourist will linger for a picture. Good potential for an art piece.

Orange Barrels not included

Not as cheap as the other ideas – but could realistically be done in a couple weeks (using faux-trees could be a cheap fix until real trees and planters are found). Heck, put up some indoor outdoor turf and some lawn chairs, call it a day. I kid…only a little though. Stop lights could work mainly as is – with minimal reprogramming to relay new timings and eliminate left turns

THIS INTERSECTION NEEDS A REDESIGN- we are protesting November 23rd - come out. DM for more or get in contact with @jakebudler

@bikepeople

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Day 3/11 - I will be posting a quick build idea for the intersection of Mass/College each day until our protest on Nov 23. Currently, the big speeding through red lights mainly affects drivers coasting north/south through College and with long lines along College northbound during peak periods. This concept eliminates two through southbound lanes on College and terminates one into St Clair for local traffic

St. Clair east bound through the intersection is eliminated to offset the longest sight distance of the intersection. Total cost for paint and materials is estimated at less than $10,000 with some reprogramming of traffic lights and inclusion of stop signs at new slip lanes. This will realistically slow down traffic in most of the high speed corners.

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